World Water Week 2007
Stockholm World Water Week, 12.-18.08.2007:
"Progress and Prospects on Water - Striving for Sustainability in a Changing World."
At the 2007 Stockholm World Water Week the initiative convened a follow-up seminar with a special focus on how to integrate groundwater into the scope of work of existing river and lake basin organisations. In addition questions of financing for transboundary groundwater management were discussed.
Programme: Middle East Seminar 2007: Transboundary Groundwater Resources in the Middle East (PDF, 100 KB)
Synthesis of the seminar: The ME Seminar: Transboundary Groundwater Resources in the Middle East (PDF, 16 KB)
Presentations:
- H.E. Tahsin Kader Ali, Minister for Water Resources, Kurdistan Region: Keynote speech (PDF, 2 MB)
- Mr. Shaminder Puri (UNESCO), Dr. Ralf Klingbeil (BGR/BMZ): Aquifers in the Middle East Region: our challenges for today, tomorrow & beyond, for shared resources (PDF, 2 MB)
- Prof. Fatma Attia, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt: Management of Shared Aquifers in the Middle East Region (PDF, 655 KB)
- Dr. Marwa Daoudy (Institute for International Studies, Geneva): Transboundary Groundwater: What Governance? (PDF, 94 KB)
- Dr. Yusuf Al-Mooji (UN-ESCWA): What is missing to ensure good governance of shared aquifers in the Middle East? (PDF, 156 KB)
- Dr. Jon Martin Trondalen: Summary of the seminar (PDF, 20 KB)